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Topic: Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Columbus Day was instituted in the U.S. in 1937 and was staple American holiday for decades. After years of pressure for historians and Native Americans, it was President Biden that declared a simultaneous holiday — Indigenous Peoples' Day. This year, Trump "brought back" Columbus Day in honor of "the first American hero." (Ann Ronan Pictures / Print Collector / Getty Images)

Trump reinstates Columbus Day again

CK Smith
Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio in "Killers of the Flower Moon" (Apple TV+)

A monstrous true story of Osage murders

Nardos Haile
Christopher Columbus monument close to Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain (Getty Images/hutchyb)

Forget Columbus — the church was worse

Celia Viggo Wexler
How to Cope with Your Team Changing Its Native American Mascot (Comedy Central)

Coping with a post-Native mascot world

Kylie Cheung
(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Columbus Day is giving people pause

Malinda Maynor Lowery - The Conversation
Olin Tezcatlipoca from the Mexica Movement speaks to demonstrators in front of a statue of Christopher Columbus during a protest against Columbus Day in Grand Park, Los Angeles, California on October 11, 2015. The Mexica Movement is amongst a growing group of people and US cities that want change the name of the 'Columbus Day' holiday to 'Indigenous Peoples Day. (MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)

The truth about Columbus Day, explained

Matthew Rozsa
Indigenous People's Day - The Daily Wire (YouTube/The Daily Wire)

Daily Wire's racist Columbus Day cartoon

Gabriel Bell
(Getty/Photos.com)

Columbus Day is not a day of hope

Jeremy Lent
Ta'Sina Sapa Win of South Dakota's Cheyenne River Reservation chants in front of police during a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline outside Saint Anthony, North Dakota, October 5, 2016. (Reuters/Terray Sylvester)

It's 1492 all over again

Alli Joseph
Boys dressed as Christopher Columbus march in the annual Columbus Day Parade in New York City on Oct. 8, 2012 (Reuters/Keith Bedford)

"Most massive act of genocide"

Ben Norton
(Reuters/Keith Bedford)

Columbus gets his comeuppance

J.P. Lawrence